I never warmed up to tablets. I found using them was tiring as I needed to hold the stylus 'just so' and I was unable to completely prevent the stylus from drifting close enough to the pad surface to create 'unuthorized' marks and ticks on the image.

I know many people love them. My advice though would be to buy something used that is very cheap and make sure you want one before you spend big bucks on the latest and greatest Intuos.